Brace yourselves. The first significant snowfall of the season is set to hit Wisconsin tonight and last through Friday morning.

Get ready for a wet, slippery and possibly white-knuckled commute in the morning, especially since motorists will be getting re-acquainted with winter driving (sighs).

The National Weather Service in Green Bay put out a special weather statement Thursday that is forecasting parts of northeast and central Wisconsin to receive 1 to 2 inches of snow overnight and into Friday.

Meanwhile, the Door County area and parts of northern Wisconsin could receive up to 4 inches of snow, according to the weather service.

Southeastern lakefront areas around Milwaukee are forecast for between a half an inch to 3 inches, according to a report from the National Weather Service in Milwaukee.

A cold weather front moving into the Midwest Thursday is what is bringing forth the early snowfall.

"We're getting a trough of low pressure, which brings cooler air from Canada. That's bringing this push of cooler air and it will stick around for the next several days," said Sarah Marquardt, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Sullivan.

With the cold front also comes windy conditions, which the weather service said could gust up to 33 mph Friday.

Temperatures throughout most of the state aren't expected to get any higher than the low 30s with lows expected to bottom out at about 20 degrees, according to the weather service.

According to a hazardous weather outlook from the weather service, the Friday morning commute could be tricky.

"Hazardous travel is possible at times Friday into early Saturday, including for the Friday morning commute," the outlook said.

November snowfall, however, should just be expected by now. According to monthly weather service climate averages from 1981 to 2010, the Green Bay area normally sees an average snowfall of 4 inches during the month.

Get those shovels out.

Meg Jones of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contributed to this report